Layered Air Defence Architecture (Operational Priorities)
Integrated Air & Missile Defence (IAMD)
30 pages · PDF · 13 December 2025 · Licensed single-user copy, watermarked to the buyer
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About this report
The emergence of a layered air defence architecture as a distinct operational line of effort reflects the urgent need to counter a full spectrum of aerial threats in a unified and multilayered manner. In NATO’s current strategic environment, Russia’s use of advanced missiles and drones has underscored severe vulnerabilities in Europe’s air defences .
Alliance leaders have explicitly identified integrated air and missile defence as key to credible deterrence, especially after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine shattered assumptions about the security of NATO airspace .
Key questions this report answers
- What defines a layered air defence architecture as a distinct operational line of effort against the full spectrum of aerial threats?
- How do sensors, interceptors and command-and-control layers interact to counter Russian missiles and drones in a unified, multilayered manner?
- Which actors, capability families and industrial-base bottlenecks shape integrated air and missile defence for NATO?
- What readiness, force-posture and roadmap measures are needed to make layered air defence a credible deterrent?
Inside this report
- Operational Rationale and Strategic Anchoring
- Mission Sets, Theatres, Domains and Scenarios
- Force Posture, Readiness Models and Command-and-Control Architecture
- Capability Families, Tactical Building Blocks and Performance Requirements
- Technology Clusters, Industrial Base, Value Chain and Structural Bottlenecks
Who it's for
Strategy, corporate-development and investment teams that need an ecosystem-level view — budgets, industrial capacity and technology landscapes — before committing capital or capacity.
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